Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

I was handed a tough life lesson at a very early age.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

Hope is a function of struggle.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Only through suffering do we learn